Twitter getting athletes into trouble

Happy birthday Maurkice and Mike Pouncey — you are the latest athletes in the "I look like an idiot on Twitter" carousel.

Happy birthday Maurkice and Mike Pouncey — you are the latest athletes in the "I look like an idiot on Twitter" carousel.

Maurkice and Mike — twin brothers who play for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins respectively — were photographed Saturday night (celebrating their 24th birthdays to come July 24) at a Miami nightclub where they donned "Free Hernandez" hats.

The brothers' former University of Florida teammate Aaron Hernandez is being held without bail on murder charges of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, a semipro football player.

The day after the photos were made public, Maurkice publicly apologized.

"I fully recognize the seriousness of the situation involving my former teammate, and I regret that my actions appear to make light of that serious situation," Maurkice wrote.

In a similar situation of 'open foot, insert mouth' disease, baseball commissioner Bug Selig has announced — amid a major drug scandal mind you — that baseball is, "cleaner than it's ever been."

Selig, who apparently is living with blinders on, declined questions regarding a Miami-based clinic accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs. Former MVPs Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez headline a list of players allegedly involved.

Twitter is getting other athletes in hot water in 140 characters or less. New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz landed in it this week when he tweeted after George Zimmerman's not guilty verdict.

"Thoroughly confused. Zimmerman doesn't last a year before the hood catches up to him," Cruz tweeted.

I wonder how long it took the Giants to "catch up" with Cruz? The player deleted the tweet and later said he didn't want kids, "to think I'm trying to incite violence on anyone."

Cruz must have meant "the hood" to be a nice place where accused killers of young African-American men can go to "catch up."